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I’m honored, humbled, over-the-moon, dancing on clouds, but really at a loss for words to adequately describe the news that Skin Shift and I have been included on the eighth annual list of debut poets from Poets & Writers magazine (Jan/Feb 2013 issue). Here are the twelve of us: Zubair Ahmed Lillian-Yvonne Bertram John Chávez Read More …
I’m quite humbled to hear that Didi at PoetsArtists magazine has not only nominated a pair of my poems for the Pushcart Prize, but I’m the only nominee she’s sending along this year. The two poems: M/Ghost M Tanka Answers to a Ten Question Interview This brings my lifetime Pushcart nomination tally up to eleven. Always Read More …
I have an essay in The First Time I Heard… The Smiths. Edited by novelist Scott Heim, this is part four in “an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic artist or band.” You can download the e-book here. * A new poem–“No Garlic”–in the Read More …
As promised, here are some more interviews: A self-interview up at The Nervous Breakdown. My literary influences interrogate me. Poet and novelist Collin Kelley interviews me in his “Five Questions…” interview series at Modern Confessional. On the anthology front, my poem “What Part of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Don’t You Understand?” is in the new Love Rise Read More …
Thunderstorms flooding the city. Air so heavy with humidity and pollution and rotting trash it’s hard to breathe. Showering multiple times a day to stay cool and get the film off your skin. Ah New York in the summertime. It’s around this time every year I start dreaming of Autumn and crisper days and getting Read More …
Take a storyboard tour through seven images central to the poems in Skin Shift over at Jeffery Berg’s blog jdbrecords. * The new issue of PoetsArtists is dedicated to interviews, and I decided to take a different approach to my answers. You can check out my section here and the whole issue here. My partner, Michael, Read More …
Happy birthday to my book Skin Shift, which is officially released today. You share a birthday with your daddy, and with Marilyn Monroe, amongst others. Last summer while in the midst of my Marilyn research, I discovered The Seven Year Itch premiered on her birthday, June 1st, 1955, during her year of self-imposed exile in New York Read More …
If you pre-ordered Skin Shift, Sibling Rivalry Press is shipping pre-orders early! Each day another reader writes to say it arrived in the mail. My little skin-shifter soldiers are marching! It is also now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and SPD, and always through SRP (support small presses!), so choose your seller if you have yet to Read More …
Happy May Day! Today marks the 1-month countdown to the book launch. I’ve been doing interviews, written and live, in recent weeks and am in party-planner mode for the book launch on June 1st. One of the interviews culminated in a feature on the NY Daily News books blog “Page Views” which ran this past Read More …
Pre-Order Day has arrived! Here is the press release from SRP: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NOW AVAILABLE for PRE-ORDER from SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS Matthew Hittinger’s Skin Shift “PURE HOT GLORY” Skin Shift by Matthew Hittinger Featuring Cover Art by Michael DiMotta $19.95; ISBN: 978-1937420-14-7 8 x 10 Perfect-Bound Paperback; 114 Pages Release Date: June 1, 2012 Now Available Read More …